Project Director
We are currently seeking a seasoned Project Director who possesses exceptional Japanese language proficiency to fortify our Body and Vehicle Safety team.
Key Responsibilities:
* Contribute to value creation and capture in the interaction with customers and involved parties: identify and qualify new opportunities (desirability, feasibility, viability)
* Ensure that local project development process is defined, applied and regularly improved based on the constraints of project actors.
* Monitor project objectives through relevant KPIs and initiate necessary mitigation in case of deviations
* Autonomously ensure the process is defined and followed.
* Autonomous report the project progress.
* Identify risk (critical path), ensure mitigation actions are taken and track their implementation and efficiency
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* MUST HAVE:
Master's degree in a Technical field or Project Management
Ideally 3-5 years experience in the automotive industry (invehicle component with SW component), including in business acquisition / RFI / RFQ
Fluency in English (read, spoken and written) & Japanese
* NICE TO HAVE:
Design experience using CATIA
Work experience in the Toyota Group
Benefits:
* Cross-functional collaboration: Customer, Management, project Product owner / business developer / TechLead, AISIN engineering and sales team.
* Knowledge sharing with the team and involved stakeholders in the serial development process
Engagement:
* Striving for customer satisfaction
* Commit to deliver on time product
* Take ownership of the process and the schedule and cascade it inside the project
* Build trust relationship with stakeholders
* Find ways to solve issues and solve escalation issues at his level.
* Spot dysfunctions and continuously improve